Aprille Best GLOVER_____Living and Working in A Cave

Yes Virginia, People still live in caves. Originally
either natural caves or open shaft stone quarries to mine stone
for the great churches and chateaux of the Loire Valley. Caves
gradually became storehouses for wine, livestock, mushrooms and
in the driest caves homes for people. Small villages of caves
were easy to defend against attack. In the small village of Lavardin,
France people have lived or worked in caves continuously since
pre-history. This small town of just two hundred has both the
ruin of a medieval fortress dating back to the Merovingian Dynasty
and three thousand year old druid caves. Not to mention a gothic
bridge and a Roman fort. Now caves may have electricity, city
water and sewage not to mention cable TV, but no two are the
same. The life of a modern troglodyte is an adventure where nothing
is quite the same as your standard modern construction.